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...Barbara Conable (R-N.Y.), the leader of the move to commit Congress to future tax cuts, called it "good fiscal sense and good political sense...
...painter colleagues who specialized in pessimistic views about the world expressed frequent feelings of pity for "poor Hans" who nevertheless adhered to a brighter view of things--a view which his canvases reflect. Hoffman, perhaps not in-coincidentally, was one of the few major abstract expressionists who did not commit suicide or experience periods of mental instability...
...have to keep up the diligent effort in the hope they don't commit another offense," he added, referring to the indefinite duration of the present stakeout of the Business School area...
...quick-hitting, gung-ho type defense that bottled up UMass last week. Colgate tends to camouflage its running plays with a rollout pass option attack directed by quarterback Alex Mancini, who is from Fonda, N.Y. "We need discipline on defense," Restic says, "we have to read and then not commit quickly and then find the football...
...campaigned for Adlai Stevenson), a graduate of Berkeley's law school, Bird, 41, is also under fire for her vote in a controversial rape case. A man who had raped a woman over a four-hour period, while holding a knife over her and inflicting minor lacerations, did not commit "great bodily injury," ruled the court. The majority opinion was written by one of Bird's temporary appointees, and Bird concurred, alienating law-and-order advocates and many feminists, her natural allies...